John Paley (February 6, 1871 – December 23, 1907) was a Russian-born American Yiddish writer and newspaper editor.
He allegedly converted to Christianity at one point, but he immigrated to New York City in 1888 and returned to Judaism.
During the Spanish–American War, he dug up incidents from the Spanish Inquisition and printed them in the paper as if they only occurred the day before.
He once tricked a Jewish peddler to eat fried oysters with him, and when he told the peddler he ate unkosher food he threw up the food and lay sick in bed for several days.
[6] Paley also wrote dramas "The Russian Nihilist" and "Life in New York," "Die Schwarze Chevrah," "Uriel Acosta," "Mysteries of the East Side," "The Erev Rav," "Yichus und Verbrechen," and "Das Leben in New York.